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  • A Public School That Not Only Keeps Children Safe, But Heals

    August 03, 2018 |

    Nonprofit Quarterly |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Cherokee Point Elementary School in San Diego became a trauma-informed school in 2015, and since then suspensions have fallen to zero (and remained that way since) and they no longer need a campus police officer. The school's approach includes revised disciplinary practices, social-emotional instruction, free breakfast, school-wide training about trauma, strong parental engagement, and intensive individual support. They even partner with community organizations that all them to create and offer a wider variety of services than the school could on its own.

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  • ‘We can do it and do it right': Roswell puts pieces in place for preschool

    August 02, 2018 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: United States, Roswell, New Mexico

    Staff members in the Roswell Independent School District (RISD) tackle the lack of resources and teachers in their district by looking to their own student body as the future of their faculty. With a new preschool program, early education training, and a strategic plan to implement state funding, RISD is helping to educate kids on a more comprehensive level and encourage growth in local early childhood development education.

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  • To Focus On Students' Emotional Well-Being, India Tries 'Happiness Classes'

    July 28, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    In past months, students in Delhi, India have found a new addition their incredibly rigorous academic curriculums: happiness classes. In an attempt to combat high rates of stress and depression linked to student suicides, the classes focus on emotional well-being and meditation, but critics contend that a 35 minutes a day is not enough to reverse the mental health consequences of India's competitive academic culture.

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  • Innovation schools are a cross between public and charter. Could they come to Rochester?

    July 18, 2018 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Recent reports show steady improvement for students attending Indianapolis’ Innovation Schools - a unique model that “marries the autonomy of charter schools with the resources and scale of a school district.” While Innovation Schools are controlled by an outside nonprofit or board of directors and are free to make their own curriculum decisions, they rely on the public school system for a number of key resources and their test scores count towards the district's overall performance. Could this structure work in other states with varying political cultures surrounding charters and unions?

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  • How New Orleans Is Helping Its Students Succeed

    July 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Calling New Orleans' post-Katrina school reform "the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America," journalist David Leonhardt outlines what he sees as the two main pillars holding up New Orleans' success -- autonomy and accountability. Leonhardt writes, "New Orleans is a great case study partly because it avoids many of the ambiguities of other education reform efforts. The charters here educate almost all public-school students, so they can’t cherry pick." Can other districts, who aren't starting from scratch, learn from the city's remarkable progress?

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  • A curriculum to help students build healthy relationships

    July 13, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Seeley Lake, Montana

    Having a trusted network of adult mentors promotes social engagement and resilience in kids. The Kaleidoscope Connect program in Seeley Lake, Montana teaches seventh and eighth grade students the importance of trusted adult support and healthy decisions using colorful balloons, strings, and anchors as a metaphor. The two-year curriculum aims to address challenges ranging from rural isolation to student trauma by giving kids the tools to build healthy relationships with multiple adult mentors inside and outside of school.

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  • As need soars, schools rally behind families in Vancouver, Wash. — and other cities take notice

    July 13, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Vancouver, Washington

    As absenteeism has decreased and scores have gone up, Vancouver's community school model has not gone unnoticed. Administrators and teachers attribute the change to the city's push to incorporate social services into the fabric of at least half of its school campuses.

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  • Want to Reduce Bullying in Schools? Bring in Babies

    July 09, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: Canada

    Since 1996, Roots of Empathy, a Toronto-based non-profit, has designed and administered empathy-based curriculum for elementary school students. What makes this program unique? Roots of Empathy brings newborn babies into the classroom to teach young students to identify their own and others' feelings with the hopes that the emotional development curricula will curb bullying.

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  • Personalized learning is the new education reform hiding in plain sight

    July 02, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Journalist Laura Pappano travels to Texas to examine how one school is enacting "personalized learning," a trend she suspects may be "more revolutionary than we think." At Dan D. Rogers Elementary School in Dallas, students are taught to lead their own learning starting in their first days of kindergarten. Pappano weighs the pros and cons of the approach, looking at technology and educational equity in these increasingly popular schools.

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  • How an Unknown Reformer Rescued One of America's Most Troubled School Districts

    June 30, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    In his five years as superintendent of Camden public schools, Paymon Rouhanifard shepherded in a new era of increasing graduation and decreasing suspension rates. Rouhanifard "avoided the extremes of zigzagging educational trends" and combined his background as both a politician and an educator to offer up a long term path to improvement, one that took into consideration the fate of public and charter schools alike. As Rouhanifard moves on, he leaves a unique legacy, one he hopes will prove resistant to the whims of short-term education reform trends.

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